Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1942, Page 1

Weather F orecast Fair, colder tonight, lowest temperature about 25 degrees. Temperatures today—Highest, 58, at 8 a.m.; low~ est, 46, at 4 pm. * Prom the United ®tates Wi Full Details on Pag mer Sureau Report. Closing N. Y. Markets—Sales, Page 26. 90th YEAR. No. 35,675. JAP FOR Nations Unite In Pact to Use All Resources - Agreement Follows * General Principles Ot Atlantic Charter BULLETIN. Indicating an increasingly close co-ordination of Ameri- can and Dutch fighting strength in the Southwestern Pacific, President Roosevelt late today arranged a confer- ence with Dr. A. Loudon, Netherlands Minister, and top-ranking officials of the War and Navy Departments. Secretary of War Stimson and 8ecretary of Navy Knox head- ed the latter group, with the meeting scheduled for 5 o’clock. By JOHN C. HENRY. Twenty-six nations joined to- day in a binding and formal dec- laration of solidarity and total effort to defeat the Axis. Headed by the United States and Great Britain, the group pledged itself to devote complete military and economic resources to this cause, with individual members on record in their promises that there would be no separate armistice or peace with the common enemy. | ‘The pronouncement was signed at | the State Department by diplomatic | representatives of everv Govern- ment now recorded as at war with the Axis. | Topping the list were the signa- tures of President Roosevelt and | Prime Minister Churchill, with So- | viet Russia and the Chinese re-| public, the other members of the big | «four, following in that order. Maxim | | Litvinoff, Soviet Ambassador, and Tze-Ven Soong, Chinese Foreign Minister, signed for their govern- ments. The Pronouncement. ‘The brief but unqualified pro- nouncement follows in full: “The governmen's signatory here- to, having subscribed to a common | program of purposes and principles embodied in the joint declaration of the President of the United States of America and the Prime Minister | of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland dated August 14, 1941, known as the At- lantic Charter, | “Being convinced that complete | victory over their enemies is es-| sential to defend life, liberty, inde- pendence and religious freedom, and to preserve human rights and justice in their own lands as well as in other lands, and that they are now en- gaged in a common struggle ngninsci savage and brutal forces seeking to | subjagate the world, declare: “(1) Each government pledges it- relf to employ its full resources, military or economic, against those { members of the tri-partite pact and | its adherents with which such gov- | ernment is at war. | “(2) Each government pledges it- | self to co-operate with the govern- | he #n WASHINGTON, el WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION o St D. C, FRIDAY,' JANUARY 2, 1942—FORTY-TWO PAGES. NIGHT FINAL SPORTS . (P) Means Associated Press. THREE CENTS. AERIAL VIEW OF MANILA, ENTERED BY JAPANESE—This is an aerial view of (1) Manila Harbor (2) Pasig River, (3) Fort Santiago, (4) the walled city, (5) Manila Hotel, (6) legislative Manila, which was entered by Japanese troops today. Tire-Rationing Board Sefup Is Completed, | Headquarters Chosen Work for Present to Be Divided Among Three Minor Units Establishment of a headquarters for the District's tire-rationing board at the old Force School Building, Massachusetts avenue and Eight- eenth streets N.W., was announced late today following a conference | in the office of Commissioner Mason, | during which details of the local | program were formulated. The rationing of tires will begin Monday under the board, which is | headed by Whitney Leary. | The first thing each applicant for a new tire or tube will have to do, | ments hereto and not to make a sep- | MI- Leary and his associates decid- arate armistice or peace with the enemies. “The foregoing declaration may be adhered to by other nations which are or which may be, rendering ma- terial assistance and contributions in the struggle for victory over Hitler- The full list of the governments approving the declaration, with their signatories, follow: The United States, by Franklin | D. Roosevelt; the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ire- land. by Winston Churchill; the " (See WAR EFFORT, Page A-6.) Senator’s Father Dies FLAT ROCK. N. C, Jan. 2 ()— Dr. Joseph F. Maybank of Charles- ton, 8. C.. father of Senator May- bank of South Carolina, died here today. He had been in {ll health for several months. " ed, will be to go to either the North- | east or the Southwest automobile | testing stations, to obtain an appli- | cation blank and to have the condi- | tion of his tires and tubes tested. Must File Application. If new tires or tubes are ruled | necessary by inspection engineers, the applicant then will be directed to | | fill out the formal application and to ! | file it with the Leary staff in the| | Force School. If immediate action (Continued on Page 2, Column 1. Chileans Deny Sub Story | _SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 2 (#)—| The Chilean owners of the steam-, ship Copiapo today denied reports f that the ship had been halted by a | | Japanese submarine off the Peru- | vian coast. Reports from Northern | Chile said vesterday that the ship | had been halted and that several | Japanese subtharines were operating in the South Pacific. Ballou Orders 24-Hour Watch At D. C. Schools Continued Under directions issued today by Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, the recently instituted 24-hour watch at school buildings will be continued “indefinitely.” At the same time, a frank ex- planation was given of reasons for | asking teachers and others to serve Air-Raid Alarm The Office of Civilian Defense for the Metropolitan Area has asked The Star to publish for the information of the public these air raid signals for the entire region, including near- by Virginia and Maryland: Alarm—Five blasts of half- second intervals, sounded three eonsecutive times; a total of 15 blasts. All clear—Three long blasts of one and one-half seconds each. ¢ at night, hitherto explained only as being necessary “to keep open lines of communications.” Possi- | bility that many school buildings | would be designated as “emergency casualty stations for medical sery- ices” in ‘case of an enemy attack was given as one reason for the Dr. Ballou, in formal instructions to-all principals who are "school wardens, also stated that school buildings now are being' utilized for many ¢ivillan defense services, such as instruction.in first aid for teach- ers and other empleyes, instruction in handling bombs of various kinds, instruction for citizen volunteers set up by regional wardens, zone warden posts, auxiliary police force stations, instruction of rescue squad workers and emergency feeding units. 24-hour vigil. | Dr. Ballou said: “Many schools will also be designated as emergency] (See D. C. DEFENSE, Page A-16.) ! D. C. Bank Deposits Reach Record Total Of $495,474,845 Deposits in Washington's 22 banks December 31 smashed all previous records, reaching a to- tal of $495474845, an increase of $18,055,730 in the last three months of the year. The new record came. to light following the controller of the currency’s condition call, issued today and dated the last day of the old year. It was the eighth consecutive time in which de- posits in the Capital have en- tered new ground. (Details in Financial Section.) 33 Spies Senfenced To Terms in Prison {0f Up fo 20 Years Lang, Bomb Plant Agent, Draws Heaviest Penalty By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—Prison sen- tences ranging up to 20 years were imposed today on 33 members of a fantastically operated spy ring which networked the world in gathering and delivering all kinds of military, commercial and indus- trial intelligence to Germany. Judge Mortimer W. Byers, sitting in Brooklyn Federal Court where 14 members of the ring were convicted of espionage December 12 after a 14-week trial, sentenced them and 19 others, including three women who previously had pleaded guilty. They were charged specifically with failure to register as agents of the German Reich and with con- spiracy to deliver vital American defense secrets to Germany. Max- (See SPIES, Page A-7.) Late Races Earlier Resits, Rossvan's, Other Selections and Entries for To- morrow, Page A-2. | Tropical Park SEVENTH RACE—Purse. ing; 4-year-olds and up: 1 e ' Man_(Rogers) bt $1000; claim- -16 miles Avesta(Reniek) 7 u¥nd| (Torres). ime, 1:45_2-5. Also 'ran—Biscayne Blue. Bold Nelson, Colorado Ore, Mightily. Fair Grounds FOURTH RACE—Purse, $600: claiming; 4-year-olds and upward; 6 furiongs. Brisr Play (Madden) ' 840 6.00° 3.80 1New Discovery (Conley) 860 4:20 Chanting_(Taylor) 4.00 Time, 1:13% .70 3.40 10 440 5. Also ran—Count Pitz. Pop's Rival. Coc- klebur. Dodge Me, igh-Fair, Half Time, ln{lnrxlyidl Peggy's Advice, f Nahahcub. eid. rse. $1.000: o upward: 1, ] FIFTH RACE—Pu. ances: 4-vear-olds an 5.00 2 3.60 Air Master (Deering) Sun’ Lover (Madden) Kid (Brooks) me. 1:48 50 ran—Jack Horner and Pransmitter. v ¢ fPalem Office Asks Employes to Move As Patriofic Duty All Available Workers Asked to Make Shift To Richmond Offices fice employes as a patriotic duty to move to Richmond with the main portion of the office during the emergency was issued today, ac- cording to a statement by Malcolm Kerlin, administrative assistant to | the Secretary of Commerce, before | a House subcommittee investigating | Government decentralization. Mr. Kerlin said the employes were | advised that they would have until | January 5 to file application for transfer to other Government agen- cies if they found it impossible to | move to Richmond. He added that | by noon today about 100 applications for transfers had been received. Government to Pay for Moving. Mr. Kerlin said that the de- partment had been assured that the cost of transportation of employes | and their household goods would be defrayed by the Government and for a limited time, probably -about 15 days, the Government would al- low ‘each employe $5 per diem toward getting properly housed in Richmond. - The Richmond Cham- ber of Commerce and other organi- zations there have given assurance that - accommodations would be found promptly fér Patent Office employes. Earlier Mr. Kerlin supported the recommendation of the subcommit- tee made to the President a few days ago that as far as possible all Gov- on a 24-hour basis, not only to hasten development of the defense program but to cut down on require- ments- for additional 'office space especially. in defense agencies. { The proposal for operating Gov- ernment personnel in two or three work shifts could be done “very ad- vantageously” in many Governmenj agencies, Mr. Kerlin said. Situation' Discussed. At the morning hearing Mr. Ker- lin discussed the situation in regard to various agencies in the Com- merce Department and objected to moving any of them because of their close collaboration with the War and Navy Departments, O. P. M. and other defense agencies.. He discussed 50 | the various ways in which the Bu- (8ee PATENT OFFICE, Page A-2) GUIDE FOR READERS e. Page. Amusements B-20 | Obituary ___A-12 Comics _.B-18-19 Editorials .-A-10 Editorial Features __A-11 Finance ...A-20 . | Lost and Found ____A-3 Legal Notices ___B-17 BULLETIN. The War Department said in a communique late today that American and Philippine troops north and northwest of Manila were continuing stubborn re- sistancve against Japanese attacks after the loss of the Philippine capital. By the Associated Press. i Japan’s invasion armies captured Manila today and | the United States naval base at Cavite has been evacuated, |the Government announced, while a Tokio broadcast | asserted that Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s defense forces had | fallen back to Corregidor Island and to Batan Peninsula | for a “last stand.” A War Department communique, however, indicated that “building, (7) the Escolta, or business center; (8) San Jose Hospital, (9) the Mala- canang Palace, (10) the former Bilibid Prison, (11) San Lazaro Hospital, (12) San Lazaro race track, (13) Santo Tomas University, (14) road te Lingayen Gulf. A. P. Wirephoto. Private Cars’ Commandeering ‘Gloomy Prospect’ Facing U. S. Exhaustion of Stocks of New Automobiles American and Filipino troops were still fiercely battling the in- | vaders north and south of Manila. } The communique declared Gen. MacArthur’s brilliant tactical | maneuver in shortening his lines, permitting the Japanese to take 1the Philippine capital, would enable him to strike harder, co- | ordinated blows at the enemy than if he had elected to defend | the city. MacArthur Reported at Corregidor Fortress. | Domei, the Japanese news agency, said Gen. MacArthur him- ;self had moved to the heavily-armed Corregidor Fortress, whose | 12-inch guns and bristling anti-aircraft batteries make it a power- | ful defense bastion. ‘The Navy said Cavite Naval Base, 10 miles southwest of Manila on Manila Bay, was evacuated before the Japanese entered the capital. “The loss of Manila, while serious, has not lessened the resist- ance to the Japanese attacks,” the War Department said. At Manila all military installations were removed or destroyed when the capital of the Philippines was declared an open city, and all troops, both Filipino and United States, were removed, the War Department said. The Navy said all equipment, records and stores not destroyed, by Japanese bombers had been removed from Cavite, but that the naval hospital personnel remained to care for the wounded. The advanced units of the Japanese entered Manila at 3 p.m. (1 am., E. 8. T.) the War Department said. —<& The Navy had more than $25.000.- Iooo worth of property and supplies An order appealing to Patent Of- | Will Bring Crisis, Henderson States (Earlier Story on Pl‘e A-21) By the Associated Press. Price Administrator Leon Henderson said late today that the Government might eventually have to buy or commandeer private automobiles when available stocks of new cars—esti- mated at a maximum of 650,000 units—are exhausted. In the face of present conditions, & — he told a press conference, “I can't 3D see any passenger car production | for the duration” other than about| That many workers—mechanics, 200,000 units which the automo- |salesmen, warehousemen, service- | bile industry will be allowed to com- | men and others—will lose their jobs | plete before production finally is| Was & certainty, a poll of local deal- halted about January 31. | ers disclosed. _The question of | Automobile rationing will begin | Whether they will be able to con- | about January 15, and about 450,000 tinue in business was one that the dealers couldn’t answer today. But | cars now held by dealers have been £ th 18 thevAmitentibe “frozen.” These plus the January many. S S Y order which one dealer described as a “knockout blow.” forced to close if the temporary ban Unshaken by the news of Manila's fall, the Seventy-Seventh Congress | today closed its history-making first | ! session, in which it declared war on Japan, Germany and Italy, amid stout declarations by its leaders that | the United States would recapture | the capital of the Philippines and win the war. | Congress adjourned one session | only 30 make way for another. On Monday opens the Seventy-Sev- | enth’s second session, which is ex- pected to appropriate in one year in order to prosecute the war more money than the Congresses of the first 100 years of the republic ap- propriated. | Presidert Roosevelt is to address [ Congress ::-xt week and-also send it 7hh congress Ends on hand in the Philippines in June | Cavite. Session WithPledge = simrs,romiens sun e g This total does not consider how o much material had been sent there T R ' k M n I from June 30 to the opening of hos- £ 0 e a e a I a tilities December 7. Neither did it o and cther fighting equipment, ‘We Shall Win When \ American-Filipino troops were E o said to be occupying strong positions We Hit Our S'"de' lm:u'm of the citv and were holding lar Manila Bay fortifications to prevent com‘o"y Declares !use of the harbor by the enemy. to be somewhat less intense than for several days. 5 Meanwhile, heavy fighting eon- tinued on the ground in the past 24 hours, with repeated enemy attacks from the south. nila were reported to be limited to a | size necessary for police duties and maintenance or order, the War De- | partment said. Explaining the withdrawal from | the city, the communique said that fense lines and a consolidation of defense forces north of Manila was made necessary by the tactical sit- uation in the vicinity of the capital | —presumably the relentless drive of | enemy forces northward from their | this year, most of it centered around include the value of planes and ships Japanese air activity was reported The Japanese first entering Ma- | a radical readjustment of the de- | landing places in the southeast, at ernment offices should -be-operated } | output are the only cars which will | be available to fill pressing Gov- | ernment needs, Mr. Henderson ob- served. Asked whether the Government might therefore be forced into com- mandeering, Mr. Henderson | had not yet been answered even in England and Germany. and that it was one of several “gloomy pros- | pects” faced by the United States. He said automobile rationing | would be sonducted along the same | general lines as tire rationing, but that no decision had yet been made whether tire rationing boards also would ration automobiles. Auto Sales Halt Perils Positions of Hundreds Washington automobile dealers, faced with the grim prospect of be- ing forced to discharge hundreds of employes and, perhaps closing their businesses completely, were still trying to recover today from the effects of the O. P. M. order pro- hibiting sales 'of new automobiles— said | | that this was a “hot” question which | is in effect very long. The order also is expected to re- sult in sharp increases in the sales prices of used cars. One dealer | estimated the cost would increase | at least 25 per cent. believed the new car sales ban will spur action on such a price limit The dealers, who were surprised by the suddenness of the auto- | mobile sale order, were puzzled that the ban was made to ap- ply to cars in stock, and asked: “What are we to do, let them stand here and rot?” It was pointed out that dealers must pay interest on their frozen stocks of new cars, thereby adding to their overhead. It was impossible to obtain a full estimate of the number of new cars on hand in local concerns. Some dealers had none, but others had as many as 125, this number repre- $100,000. Arnold_LMcxee. president of Mc- (See DEALERS, Page A-31) Late News Bulletins . Banking Committee Reports Price Bill The Senate Banking Committee voted a favorable report | & request for at least $50.000,000000 'Atimonan and elsewhere. senging an investment of more than | | —about half the annual national in- | come. Heroic Resistance Lauded. Congress rang out the old session | with dispatch. Both the House and Senate met at noon. The latter | fered to Japanese invaders by Amer- -| ican and Filipino troops and words | of encouragement for the future. | Majority Leader Barkley said: | “We have steeled ourselves to ex- | pect some temporary reverses until the full force of our power has been | developed.” Chairman Connally of the Senate " (See CONGRESS, Page A-6) “This maneuver was successfully | accomplished in the face of strong | enemy opposition,” the War Depart- ment said. “The consequent short- ening of our lines necessarily un- covered the road to Manila and O. P. A. officials are understood | adjourned after 22 minutes and the | made possible the Japanese en- to be considering placing a price | former after 46. The Senators heard | trance into the city. ceiling on used car sales, and it Was | praise for the heroic resistance of-| “As it had been previously de- clared an open city no closeide- " (See PHILIPPINES, Page A-6.) Helen Journeay Dead BALTIMORE, Jan. 2 (®.—Miss Helen Journeay, widely-known Balti- more sculptress, died today at Un- | ion Memorial Hospital after an ex- tended illness. She was 47. Planes, With No ‘Se By the Associated Press. spread East Indies archipelago. The official disclosure came 'Units of American Fleet 'Join Dutch Navy in Indies ‘One of the Warships’ Attacked by Jap rious Damage’ BATAVIA, Netherlands Indies, Jan. 2.—Units of the United States Fleet have joined the Dutch Navy in defense of the wide- b ' ¢ in today’s communique from the late today on a revised price control bill, after writing in a general declaration of policy that various Government agen- cies dealing with labor problems should endeavor also to Dutch high command, which reported that “one of the warships belonging to the American forces, which are co-operating with the Netherlands Navy in the defense of these regions,” had been at- stabilize wages. (Earlier Story CAIROQ, Egypt ®.—South on Page A-8) Axis Loses 5,000 Men in Fall of Bardia African troops with fixed bay- onets, rushing into battle behind British tanks, have occupied the Libyan port of Bardia and killed or captured all of the 5,000 Axis defenders, it was announced tonight. The defend- ers numbered about 4,000 Italians and 1,000 Germans. (Earlier Story on Page A-6.) Russians Recapture Maloyaroslavets MOSCOW, Saturday (®.—The Russians early today an- nounced recapture of the important town of Maloyaroslavets, 65 miles southwest of Moscow. (Earlier Story on Page A-6.) & H (In Washington the Navy said it had no information of any damage to United States warships operating in co-operation with naval forces of the Netherlands Indies. American naval officials, however, for the first time dis- closed that American naval units were co-operating with both the British and the Dutch in Pacific ‘waters.) (In Tokio Japanese imperial headquarters said Japanese planes sank a 2,000-ton ship and dam- aged another of 3,000 tons in an attack yesterday on a group of tacked without suffering “serious damage”—by Japanese planes in the northern part of the islands. P Lo B enemy transports in the Malacca Straits.) An official communique said that in the same area Japanese aircraft also attacked two United States planes. The American planes were not damaged. In their “continued attempts to terrorize the population,” the high command added, three Japanese planes bombed the east coast of Sumatra yesterday. Aneta, Netherlands Indies news T (Ses DUTCH, Page A-6) 4 % % ot % % % CES CAPTURE MANILA AND CAVITE: 26 Axis Foes Pledge Solidarity, No Separate Pedice MacArthur's Troops © FightOn From Batan, * Island of Corregidor = %% % % % b % % % % b % % % o X % % % o % % % F ~r = x x w ®